The Hole in the Bucket

The hole in the bottom of the bucket symbolizes the holes in civilization . Even though the man was saying that everything where he resided was going well, in all actuality it was not. There were black men starving, barely having enough every to get up to get a drink of water. The white men's original purpose for being there was for Colonialism, to make the black people more civil. But somewhere along the way, something went wrong and the evilness inside them grew and their entire surrounds turned into a horrific black hole. The hole in the bucket also symbolizes a lost cause. The black man could try and try as hard as he wanted but the fire was not going to get put out with a bucket with a hole in it. Colonialism was a lost cause, and the Africans were suffering from it the most.